Feature #1
International Black Power Studies Symposium and a Jazz and Justice “Flashback”
We offer this Jazz and Justice “flashback” as one of many good reasons to support the program this month during our winter pledge-drive. This is just another great example of the gaps in media we attempt to fill each week. Dr. Quito Swan is featured in this Jazz... [Read more...]
Feature #2
The Enduring Myth of Black “Buying Power” Part 2
What is there to say when gaps between demonstrable reality and people’s perceptions are as wide as the ever-widening gaps in wealth? 2010 begins with another promotional round of the popular mythology of Black “buying power.” But this economic Easter Bunny/Tooth... [Read more...]
Feature #3
The Hate That Hate Produced Mixtape! Updated Tracks and Reissue!
The emancipatory journalistic mixtape returns (again!)! FMR Hate Harder Vol.1 is now available for free streaming and downloading. Ours is a hate born of the love of freedom and a revolutionary re-ordering of the world and the mixtape is our preferred method of mass communication. ... [Read more...]
Feature #4
(Almost) One Year In: Barack Obama and Views from the Black Left
What does a “debate” which takes place solidly on the left end of the political spectrum sound like? As Obama’s presidency approaches its one year mark what can be said of it? Dedrick Muhammad and Jared Ball were invited to lead this discussion hosted by... [Read more...]
Feature #5
Black Radical Politics: Race in Cuba, Obama and the African World
“As African Americans, we know firsthand the experiences and consequences of denying civil freedoms on the basis of race, and we certainly understand what racial discrimination is and does to people. We have not tolerated it for ourselves, and will certainly not acquiesce... [Read more...]
Feature #6
UhuruRadio takes on struggles of African women in the revolution with new program!
“We want an end to the political and social oppression and economic exploitation of African women. We believe in the absolute, unequivocal, political, social, and economic equality of African women and men. We believe that a fundamental test of the progressive or revolutionary... [Read more...]
Featured Headline
The Enduring Myth of Black “Buying Power” Part 2
What is there to say when gaps between demonstrable reality and people’s perceptions are as wide as the ever-widening gaps in wealth? 2010 begins with another promotional round of the popular mythology of Black “buying power.” But this economic Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy comes at great material consequence. This “great disconnect between our people’s wishful mis-perceptions… and the objective reality that actually shapes our lives,” as Glen Ford has said recently, is in part due to misinformation and the conclusions reached by so many prominent thinkers in our world. Precisely at a time when Black unemployment is worsening and predicted to reach even further epidemic levels we also hear of research which suggests that Black Americans think their lot is actually improving.
The MC
Dr. King’s Imprisoned Image
Never untimely. Given this nation’s reluctant desire but need to erect monuments and holidays to a man whose struggle it made necessary, whose physical life it took, and whose image it must now assure permanently “testifies against” the man himself and the movement to which he was connected we thought it a good idea to re-post our summary presentation (PPT) of who King was politically and how even before death he was being re-imaged as an enemy. Being the Inconvenient Hero he was has made essential a destruction of his image, politics and the ultimate threat to power they represented. This remains necessary today so as to deny us all the individual hero and the international mass movement whose reciprocal impact inspired fear among unjust holders of power.
Voices United
The Enduring Myth of Black “Buying Power” Part 2
What is there to say when gaps between demonstrable reality and people’s perceptions are as wide as the ever-widening gaps in wealth? 2010 begins with another promotional round of the popular mythology of Black “buying power.” But this economic Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy comes at great material consequence. This “great disconnect between our people’s wishful mis-perceptions… and the objective reality that actually shapes our lives,” as Glen Ford has said recently, is in part due to misinformation and the conclusions reached by so many prominent thinkers in our world. Precisely at a time when Black unemployment is worsening and predicted to reach even further epidemic levels we also hear of research which suggests that Black Americans think their lot is actually improving.
Blackademics
Hip-Hop as Mass Media
To help further what is a long tradition of investigation of cultural expression as media we have posted here what has been useful to us for a specific look at Hip-Hop as Mass Media. This, of course, is far from exhaustive and is simply our small contribution to this broad topic, but having been asked on numerous occasions for our take, here it is! The following are source materials that can be added to the mix for consideration, study and debate.
Hip-Hop and the Obama Effect
Today at a conference hosted by the International Association for Hip-Hop Education panelists took up the discussion of the Obama Effect. What is the impact of Obama’s election on hip-hop education and political organization? Is Obama truly making hip-hop mature? Answers were attempted by panelists Mazi Mutafa, Jared Ball and Cynthia Biggs.
Jazz & Justice
International Black Power Studies Symposium and a Jazz and Justice “Flashback”
We offer this Jazz and Justice “flashback” as one of many good reasons to support the program this month during our winter pledge-drive. This is just another great example of the gaps in media we attempt to fill each week. Dr. Quito Swan is featured in this Jazz & Justice “redux” and will be a participant in this month’s International Black Power Studies Symposium. Swan took us for a fascinating look at the history of the Black Power Movement in Bermuda, the continued colonialism there and here, as well as, the preparation for an upcoming conference on the subject taking place in Bermuda next month. Also featured in this edition are sounds from the Jack Johnson hearing in Baltimore and underreported police brutality cases in Washington, DC.
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Lifestyle
Philanthrobeat! Get it Moving with Words, Beats & Life, Inc.!
Words Beats & Life (WBL) transforms individual lives and whole communities through the training in and presentation of the elements of hip-hop culture. WBL is the proud recipient of the 2009 Impact Award from the The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation. Donate to WBL today through the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
FreeMix Radio
The Hate That Hate Produced Mixtape! Updated Tracks and Reissue!
The emancipatory journalistic mixtape returns (again!)! FMR Hate Harder Vol.1 is now available for free streaming and downloading. Ours is a hate born of the love of freedom and a revolutionary re-ordering of the world and the mixtape is our preferred method of mass communication. Music, interviews and more… all intended to encourage a radical hatred of this disorder. The hate that hate produced returns in a new form with a renewed hate for that which prevents a world in which hate is not necessary. We are unapologetic in our hatred of the conditions faced by the world’s majority and we demand that others too hate harder!
Views
(Almost) One Year In: Barack Obama and Views from the Black Left
What does a “debate” which takes place solidly on the left end of the political spectrum sound like? As Obama’s presidency approaches its one year mark what can be said of it? Dedrick Muhammad and Jared Ball were invited to lead this discussion hosted by Morgan State University’s Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. While the national conversation is stifled, held between the narrow limits of corporate interests on one hand and a soft liberalism on the other, this discussion attempted to press those boundaries by focusing first on the African American community. From there varying perspectives of the Black left were developed as the point of departure for a more broad exploration of the almost one year mark of Obama’s presidency. Can/should Black people be critical of Obama? What are the benefits for Black people and the world to Obama’s presidency? What next steps should be taken? What material changes have occurred or might yet occur as a result of Obama’s election?
Featured Video
The Nubian Acoustiks Show w/Karl X (London)- Episode 24 - Nubian Acoustiks Show February 9, 2010Muzical vibes tonight alongside Warrior scholars Frances Cress Welsing and Dr Phil Valentine. Also exposing the myth behind media promotion of climate change as accurate. […]
- Episode 24 - Nubian Acoustiks Show February 9, 2010
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